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TIL there are two Chili's in Saudi Arabia

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6EgOJ TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
LQ5KP Today I learned psychologists actually took a 12 year old paralyzed kid from his parents and dropped him into a deep swimming pool because they thought he was faking his illness (M.E).
W7EjB TIL The Chinese Spy Balloon flew over the only Uranium Conversion Plant in the United States
XDmr TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
697Bm TIL "Trick or treating" only started in the 1930's in Canada and then spread to the US